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Typoe Home
From walls to the spaces between them.
The Story
Typoe Gran has spent two decades making work that stops people in public spaces and on gallery walls, from the Perez Art Museum Miami to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Now he's turning that same visual language toward the spaces people actually live in.
Typoe Home is his first furniture collection. Every piece in the line grows directly from the shapes, icons, and instincts that define his art practice: the raven, the smiley face, the blood drop, the flower, the cloud. These aren't decorative references. They're the same formal vocabulary, built to be sat in, walked on, and lived with.
The entire collection is fabricated in Miami, the city where Typoe was born, lives, and has always made his work. Each piece is produced by local craftspeople using materials chosen for longevity: walnut bases, Kvadrat wool upholstery, hand-knotted New Zealand wool and silk, molded composite shells.
The collection also marks Typoe's first collaboration with Art + Loom, a rug atelier specializing in hand-knotted textiles. The Raventooth Rug translates Typoe's tessellating raven motif into a floor piece made from New Zealand wool and silk.
Typoe Home is designed to grow. What begins as a collection for private collectors will expand into public spaces, hotel lobbies, commercial developments, and cultural institutions. The same intention Typoe brings to a gallery wall, applied to the rooms people move through every day.
“I've spent years putting work on walls. But I live with furniture every day. I sit in it, I eat at it, I fall asleep on it. At some point I realized the things I surround myself with should carry the same intention as the things I make. So I started making them. These pieces come from the same place as my paintings and sculptures. Same shapes, same instincts, same refusal to play it safe. They're meant to be lived with, not looked at from a distance.”
Typoe Gran
The Collection
Blocks
Modular sofa system
Maple base painted black, soft-to-medium foam, Kvadrat Tonus 4 wool upholstery. 1" recessed plinth base. Tight seat, tight back.
128"W x 78"D, Seat Height 19"H (5-piece modular: Left Arm 40"W x 44"D, Ottoman 32"W x 34"D, (2) Armless 32"W x 34"D, Right Arm 24"W x 44"D)
A modular sofa system built from Typoe's sculptural vocabulary. Each section is a different primary color and form, interlocking like building blocks. The backrests are shaped as Typoe's signature icons: raven, flower, cloud, blood drop, smiley. Not furniture designed to disappear into a room. It's meant to anchor it.
Happy Chair
Sculptural lounge chair
Walnut legs, natural stain, high-density foam, Kvadrat Vidar 4 wool upholstery (Happy Face COM: Vidar 4, 0443 / 1880)
56"W x 54"D x 48"H
The Happy Chair takes the universal smiley face and turns it into something you can sit in. Bright yellow upholstery over a walnut base, with a round backrest that frames the iconic expression. Playful, oversized, and impossible to ignore.
Raven Chair
Sculptural lounge chair
All wood, painted black
27"W x 34"H
Sculpted in the form of Typoe's recurring raven motif, this chair is equal parts sculpture and seating. Matte black finish on a molded shell with four tapered legs. The beak extends forward as an armrest. A piece that belongs in a gallery as much as a living room.
Raventooth Rug
Hand-knotted wool and silk rug
New Zealand wool and silk
8' x 10'
Art + Loom
Hand-knotted in collaboration with Art + Loom. The pattern is Typoe's raventooth motif, a repeating black and white tessellation of raven silhouettes. Something you can walk on, sit on, live with.
Forms Pillows
Sculptural accent pillows
Kvadrat wool upholstery, down-alternative fill
18"
Sculptural pillows in Typoe's signature forms. The shapes that run through everything he makes, now something soft you can hold. Each one is its own color and character: Blood Drop, Cloud, Flower, Raven.
About the Artist
Typoe Gran (b. 1983, Miami) is a Cuban-Jewish mixed media artist working in painting, sculpture, murals, and large-scale installation.
His work has been exhibited at the Perez Art Museum Miami, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Andy Warhol Museum, Faena Art Center Buenos Aires, and Artis-Naples. Permanent public installations include The Underline Miami, Brightline MiamiCentral, and the Pop District in Pittsburgh.
In 2010, he co-founded Primary, an artist-run gallery in Miami that has become a platform for emerging artists and experimental work.
He lives and works in Miami.
Collaborators
Art + Loom
Rug atelier specializing in hand-knotted textiles. Collaborated on the Raventooth Rug.
Kvadrat
Danish textile company. Upholstery fabrics across the collection include Vidar 4 (designed with Raf Simons), Tonus 4, and Divina 3.
Press Images
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